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Turn Services Completes Bayou Fleet Acquisition

January 18, 2021

Turn Services, a New Orleans-based provider of fleeting and towing services, has announced it has completed the acquisition of Bayou Fleet, located at Mile 125.5 on the Lower Mississippi River. Read More

Mat Sinking Unit Armors Mississippi River Banks Crew members aboard the Corps of Engineers’ Mat Sinking Unit prepare to begin laying a protective blanket of concrete squares on the Mississippi River bottom near St. Gabriel, La. (Photo by Frank McCormack)

Crew members aboard the Corps of Engineers’ Mat Sinking Unit prepare to begin laying a protective blanket of concrete squares on the Mississippi River bottom near St. Gabriel, La. (Photo by Frank McCormack)

Mat Sinking Unit Armors Mississippi River Banks

January 15, 2021

The river road through St. Gabriel, La., located on the left descending bank near Mile 200 on the Mississippi River, is a quiet stretch, with plots of farmland dwarfing neighborhoods… Read More

Lower Miss Deepening Will Have Regional, National Impacts

October 16, 2020

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently awarded the first contract to jumpstart the deepening of the Mississippi River Ship Channel from Baton Rouge, La., to the Gulf of Mexico… Read More

Continuing Resolution Keeps Government Running Until December Washington Waves

Continuing Resolution Keeps Government Running Until December

October 2, 2020

Washington, D.C.—President Donald Trump signed into law a stopgap spending bill to keep federal agencies funded through December 11 and avoid a government shutdown. With only hours left in fiscal… Read More

Lower Miss Channel Deepening Is A Triumph And Model WJ Editorial

Lower Miss Channel Deepening Is A Triumph And Model

September 25, 2020

The start of the deepening project in the Lower Mississippi River is big news for river commerce. It will bring the working depths of the LMR up to par with… Read More

Cooperation & Cutterheads: Land Building At Mississippi River Birdfoot Delta Reaches Milestone A ship passes the Weeks Marine cutterhead dredge J.S. Chatry as it works in Southwest Pass near the mouth of the Mississippi River. (Photo courtesy of Big River Coalition/P.J. Hahn)

A ship passes the Weeks Marine cutterhead dredge J.S. Chatry as it works in Southwest Pass near the mouth of the Mississippi River. (Photo courtesy of Big River Coalition/P.J. Hahn)

Cooperation & Cutterheads: Land Building At Mississippi River Birdfoot Delta Reaches Milestone

August 11, 2020

The 1984 World’s Fair in New Orleans carried the theme “fresh water as a source of life.” It’s a maxim borne out over the years in south Louisiana by the… Read More

NTSB Releases Report Detailing 2018 Allision At Louisiana’s Sunshine Bridge

August 8, 2020

At about 1:40 a.m. October 12, 2018, the mv. Kristin Alexis was headed upriver on the Lower Mississippi River near St. James Parish, La., pushing the crane barge Mr. Ervin,… Read More

Corps, Louisiana Sign Lower Mississippi River Deepening Agreement From left, Mississippi Valley Division Engineer Maj. Gen. Dianna Holland, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, and New Orleans District Engineer Col Stephen Murphy sign project partnership agreement July 31. (Photo by Frank McCormack)

From left, Mississippi Valley Division Engineer Maj. Gen. Dianna Holland, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, and New Orleans District Engineer Col Stephen Murphy sign project partnership agreement July 31. (Photo by Frank McCormack)

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